Open Multilingual Wordnet 1.3

01150662-n 'the act of depriving of food or subjecting to famine';

English	starvation ₁ ( ⊳ ) , starving ( ⊳ )
Japanese	餓え , 干乾し , 飢餓

Definitions

English: the act of depriving of food or subjecting to famine
― the besiegers used starvation to induce surrender; they were charged with the starvation of children in their care
Japanese: 食糧を断つ行為、または飢饉に屈する
― 包囲軍は、降参を促すために餓えを利用した; 子供を餓えさせた罪で彼らは告発された

Relations

Hypernym:	privation
Semantic Field:	act_n

External Links

TempoWN: ◁ ▲ ▷ (Past: 0.000; Present: 0.331; Future: 0.001)

SentiWN: △ ▽ (+0.00 -0.00) MLSentiCon: ▲ ▼ (+0.12 -0.25)